As the leader of club renegades Diagonal, Oscar Powell has been goading UK dance floors with his confrontational sets and brutish electronic aberrations since 2011. But for a man who once played the Bassline Boys’ Hitler-sampling ‘Warbeat’ to a packed Berghain, Powell the person is anything but abrasive. To set the record straight, we asked Sam A. Harris to cast a new light, IRL
Powell plays Somewhere Else on 7 February at OT301 in Amsterdam. The show is free for Subbacultcha members.